HMS Blossom (1806)

His Majesty's ship Blossom off the Sandwich Islands
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Blossom
Ordered	19 November 1805
Builder	Robert Guillaume, Northam
Laid down	February 1806
Launched	10 December 1806
Completed	21 April 1807
Reclassified	Exploration ship in 1825 Survey ship in 1829 Hulked in 1833
Fate	Broken up in August 1848
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	18-gun Cormorant-class sloop-of-war
Tons burthen	427 bm
Length	108 ft 4+1⁄2 in (33.0 m) (overall) 90 ft 11+1⁄2 in (27.7 m) (keel)
Beam	29 ft 8+3⁄4 in (9.1 m)
Depth of hold	9 ft (2.7 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	121
Armament	(as built) Main deck: 16 × 32-pounder carronades QD: 6 × 18-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns + 2 × 18-pounder carronades

HMS Blossom was an 18-gun Cormorant-class sloop-of-war. She was built in 1806 and is best known for the 1825–1828 expedition under Captain Beechey to the Pacific Ocean. She explored as far north as Point Barrow, Alaska, the furthest point into the Arctic any non-Inuit had been at the time. She was finally broken up in 1848.